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I just read Zippy's post, who is afraid of doing a distro upgrade, for a reason!. After some reading and preparations, i did do the aptitude dist-upgrade (Etch->Lenny) on a production machine. All went well, just a
couple of issues:

- The usual config suggestions,
- Some graphic pop-ups about programms to run at boot,
- and i had to remove lilo, somehow it was installed in the process, although the machine has GRUB.
so after 15min or so i was running 5.0.8 (cat /etc/debian_version).
But unfortunately it had the old kernel: 2.6.18-6-686-bigmem, which stayed the same after reboot.

Then a bit hasty i read about grub and update-grub. update-grub
discovered a new kernel (2.6.26-2-686-bigmem) and it updated /boot/grub/menu.lst. But then after reboot nothing!

I had to use rescue mode (@Zippy: dont be afraid of rescue mode, its your best friend) to the change menu.lst and reboot with 2.6.18. I cant pinpoint the problem at boot, the logfiles say:

Thanks, the script looks promising. I'll have to try it on local vm's first.

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Originally Posted by craigevil

1) Fully upgrade etch first.

I did.

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Originally Posted by craigevil

2) READ the release notes for Lenny and follow the upgrade steps

I did too (still have that page open), did I overread something? I read about udev, grub, some timing issues, ata2.00 bug/error, irqpoll...

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Originally Posted by craigevil

3) Read the release notes for Squeeze and follow the upgrade steps

Read those too, but didnt perform the upgrade steps yet. Now I'm wondering if it isn't easier to just start with a clean Squeeze image and get done with it, or to learn something and keep searching for a solution?